World Population Day by Abibiman Foindation

PRESS STATEMENT

World Population Day 11 July

Theme: Focus is on Adolescent Pregnancy

DATE: 11^th July, 2013

A world of 7 billion is both a challenge and an opportunity with implications on sustainability, urbanization, access to health services and youth empowerment. The United Nations estimates that global population will swell to 9 billion by the year 2050.

About 16 million girls under age 18 give birth each year. Another 3.2 million undergo unsafe abortions. The vast majority – 90 per cent -- of the pregnant adolescents in the developing world are married. But for far too many of these girls, pregnancy has little to do with informed choice. Often it is a consequence of discrimination, rights violations (including child marriage), inadequate education or sexual coercion.

At least one billion people around the world do not get enough to eat. A nearly equal amount – 1.4 billion – are overweight, and can suffer from various health problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. And more than 200 million women across the globe have an unmet need for contraception, keeping them from planning how many children they want to have and when. In addition, women farmers often lack access to land, credit, and education making it harder for them to provide for their families. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that if women had the same access to these services as men, global malnutrition could be reduced by 12 to 17 percent.

Improving schooling for all children and youth, especially increasing educational among girls and women because population growth combines with poverty and lack of access to resources search for fuel-wood, food, water and other basic needs

Education for women and man will reduces desired family size and fertility, social pressures on women to have early and frequent pregnancies. Together, these steps would result in a gradually declining world population within a few decades.

When women are empowered to plan and space their children, they are better able to adapt to climate change and ensure the survival of their families. In addition, slowing population growth could help reduce future emissions.

Climate change is ultimately produced by the pressures placed on the earth’s ecosystem by humankind’s development efforts

Teenage pregnancies is on the increase in the Central Regional of Ghana From the year 2010, teenage pregnancies progressed from 12, 064 to 13,059 in 2011, then to 13,780 2013. By Medical Director of the Central Regional Hospital, Dr. Daniel Asare

Abibimman Foundation, AYICC –Ghana, GCAP-Ghana and IDAY-Ghana, believe in sex education and raise awareness of the issue of adolescent pregnancy in the hopes of delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled

Kenneth Nana Amoateng

Chief Executive Officer

Abibiman Foundation

www.abibimmanfoundation.org/ Tel +233-303-213918, Mob:+233244023651

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 26 June 2013,Press Statement by Abibiman Foundation in Ghana

PRESS STATEMENT

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 26 June

Theme: Right to Rehabilitation Let`s make this right a reality”

DATE: 26^th June, 2013

Abibiman Foundation, Solidarity with all political prisoners and prisoners of insulation in all the prisons of the world today

According to Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”,

Torture seeks to annihilate the victim’s personality and denies the inherent dignity of the human being. The United Nations has condemned torture from the outset as one of the vilest acts perpetrated by human beings on their fellow human beings.

Women and Children in Ghana experience both mental and physical torture resulting in loss of self-confidence, insecurity and resilience to deal with other traumatic experiences. Such stress from multiple traumatizes also often the cause for young person to take the plunge into substance abuse, anti-social activities and immoral practices, Even though torture is a crime, torture persists as deep-rooted practice

Serious human rights violations, including torture and ill-treatment, have been and are still today perpetrated with almost total impunity in the name of national security.

Right of all men and women to live free of the fear of torture from inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment in any society, at any time, under any circumstance

Abibimman Foundation, IDAY-Ghana (International Day of the African Child and Youth), AYICC –Ghana and Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP-Ghana), Call for the criminalization of political arrests and the release of all political prisoners in the world

Kenneth Nana Amoateng 

Chief Executive Officer 

Abibiman Foundation 

 www.abibimmanfoundation.org,www.iday.org,/ Tel +233-303-213918

Young people in Ghana let make health our 'new high' in life, not drugs. Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 26 June 2013

PRESS STATEMENT

International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 26 June

Theme: Make health your 'new high' in life, not drugs

DATE: 26^th June, 2013

"Make health your 'new high' in life, not drugs" aims to inform the public and particularly young people, about the harmful effects of new psychoactive substances (NPS). Every year an estimated 210 million people use illicit drugs, with almost 200,000 of them dying annually. Drug use and drug trafficking are not only a health threat, but also threaten global stability and socio-economic development across the world.

Illegal drug trafficking is a clear obstacle to development. This is cross-border problem requires a robust and coordinated law enforcement response within and among countries. Tackling organized crime and the illicit drugs trade is a shared responsibility. by working together with young people and communities can create synergies, build upon existing infrastructures and leverage resources to help in the fight against illicit drug trafficking.

Patient’s and community members should report their Children, Friends and colleagues who indulge in illicit drugs use to relevant authorities

Ghana Education Service in Ghana should incorporated drug abuse into the schools curricula and providing incentives for abstinence, building skills to resist drug use, replacing drug-using activities with constructive and rewarding activities, improving problem-solving skills, and facilitating better interpersonal relationships. 

Abibimman Foundation, IDAY-Ghana (International Day of the African Child and Youth), AYICC –Ghana and Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP-Ghana) We call for action at the local level, School Clubs, individual family, government of Ghana, the media and civil society to raise awareness and attack this threat to human life and security by illicit drugs and Illicit Trafficking

Young people in Ghana let make health our 'new high' in life, not drugs

 Kenneth Nana Amoateng 

Chief Executive Officer 

Abibiman Foundation 

 www.abibimmanfoundation.org,www.iday.org,/ Tel +233-303-213918,

COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY IDAY GHANA AND ABIBIMAN FOUNDATION NO CELEBRATION OF THE DAY OF AFRICA CHILD

A 13 POINT COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY PARTICIPANT AT THE END OF THE ONE DAY FORUM ORGANIZED BY IDAY GHANA AND ABIBIMAN FOUNDATION IN CELEBRATION OF THE A DAY OF AFRICA CHILD AT TEMA METROPOLITAN CONFERENCE ROOM ON THE 18^TH JUNE,2013.

THEME: “ELIMINATING HARMFULL SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PRACTICES AFFECTING CHILDREN’S EDUCATION: OUR COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBLILTY “

Communiqué

1.      Call to an end to child exploitation especially child trafficking, child labour, child soldier, harmful traditional and cultural practices

2.      A proactive Continental integration process with the potency to defend the rights of the African child.

3.      Create a school culture and environment that supports ‘zero tolerance’ for violence

4.      Call for community libraries and provision of electricity and computers in all the schools across the country to facilitate the study of Information Communication Technology (ICT) as well as inculcate reading habit in children

5.      Reducing the incidence of the various forms of violence against girls in schools by increasing the knowledge of pupils and students to learn the causes of and solutions for addressing

6.      Call for Education and awareness on school dropout in the rural and urban communities

7.      We encourage a more effective partnership between government, private sector and civil society in achieving the MDGs; 

8.      Action must be taken now on teacher absenteeism because it has a great impact on pupils’ performance

9.      Develop programmes to enhance the social capital of girls and ensure their continuation from basic to secondary school education by addressing violence against girls in schools

10.  We call the attention of international development partners and members of the developed world to live up to their promise to the achievement of the MDGs;

11.  Impart values and skills to pupils and students to prevent violence against girls in schools

12.  While understanding the role of the media, we call on them to increase their publicity and reporting on the MDGs;

13.  While remaining resolute on our commitment to the MDGs campaign, we call on all stakeholders in the campaign to support our earnest effort to champion the actualization of the goals;

Finally, we implore the government to be fully committed to education in the local community because education is a key tool in addressing poverty issues and ensuring the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). 

Kenneth Nana Amoateng 

Chief Executive Officer 

DAY Ghana Coordinator

Abibimman Foundation 

 www.iday.org,www.abibimmanfoundation.org/ Tel +233-303-213918, Mob:+233244023651